Prints

As the contemporary art market sizzles, buyers looking for limited edition prints by blue-chip artists may be out of luck

By

Jacob Hale Russell Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Nov. 5, 2005 12:01 a.m. ET

Get ready to pay even more for prints. This weekend, dealers at the year's major print sale, the fair of the International Fine Print Dealers Association, are enjoying a particularly strong market. The fair follows last week's print auctions at Christie's and Sotheby's, which set several artist records, including $245,600 at Christie's for a set of six 1970 prints by artist Cy Twombly.

These were only the latest big sales in a market that's rising. This year's major spring and fall print auctions at Christie's and...